NEWTON, a chapelry in the parish of MANCHESTER, hundred of SALFORD, county palatine of LANCASTER, comprising the townships of Bradford, Droylsden, Failsworth, Moston, and Newton, and containing 9478 inhabitants, of which number, 2577 are in the township of Newton, 2 miles (N. E. by E.) from Manchester. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Chester, endowed with £ 500 private benefaction, £200 royal bounty, and £1000 parliamentary grant, and in the patronage of the Warden and Fellows of the Collegiate Church of Manchester. The chapel, dedicated to All Saints, is a handsome edifice in the later style of English architecture, erected, at an expense of A 8000, defrayed by a rate on the inhabitants, on the site of an old chapel, which fell down on the 2nd of May, 1808. There are places of worship forWesleyan Methodists and Unitarians; and at Fairfield is an estab-. lishment of Moravians. The manufacture of cotton, and silk, and the printing of calico, are carried on to a con-, siderable extent, and silk-weaving on a smaller scale. A school has been erected by subscription, in which twenty children are instructed for about £10 per annum, the united bequests of William Purnall, in 1766, and Elizabeth Chetham.